This isn't a track per se, not like what I would play in one of my sets but I thought I would share something I made entirely out of recordings of objects and hitting objects against obects within the studio. This is not really a work in progress, it's like the recording of an experiment.

Basically I sampled a rachet, a metal cabinet, wood blocks, a disposable camera, my jacket, a couple other useless objects, and my girlfriend.

I then edited some samples and threw them all into live, and what you hear is a mixed down live session where I tried to compose everything into a 'music of every day objects'. (particularly rhythm and percussive aspects of every day objects) I did this the day before valentine's day so at the time i just called it 'valentine's day massacre', but the title really is irrelevant.

Maybe you will find this interesting and different.

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Check this out for something similar in terms of process





Having a listen now

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Fortuna Favet Fortibus.

haha awesome I'll give it a listen

btw the recording on this was binaural for a lot of the samples, especially the rachet samples which i wheeled around in circles between the two mics

it was done for a live/experimental electroacoustic music class i'm taking

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Originally posted by nefardec haha awesome I'll give it a listen btw the recording on this was binaural for a lot of the samples, especially the rachet samples which i wheeled around in circles between the two mics

Did you use a dummy head or your own?

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Fortuna Favet Fortibus.

It was pretty unscientific in that I just measured my head width and positioned the mics and then moved the objects around in the space.

Mainly though I wanted a recording that was stereo, and I wasn't sure if the binaural thing would read through.

The zippers are also done that way, so that there is some dimension to them, again I don't know how well that reads.

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Originally posted by nefardec It was pretty unscientific in that I just measured my head width and positioned the mics and then moved the objects around in the space. Mainly though I wanted a recording that was stereo, and I wasn't sure if the binaural thing would read through. The zippers are also done that way, so that there is some dimension to them, again I don't know how well that reads.

To make a recoring binaural, you need mics in place of ears, with the space in between filled ie. a head. If there is space between the ears, its a stereo recoring because there is two mics, but it isn't a true binaural recording.

It's pretty nice, just wish there was some more lowend, all these highs make it a very fatiguing listen.

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Fortuna Favet Fortibus.

Right - I guess it wasn't true binaural then - the rachet is probably closest since it circled around two condenser mics at rough head distance apart.

Oh well.

I guess I was interested in not masking the original source of the sample, but sort of making it obvious, like the objects were coming together in symphony. It was essentially like tieing my hands behind my back with limited unrelated samples from an earlier recording assignment and then trying make something out of it.

Very much agreed with the need for low end, it's quite empty down there.

I thought at some point I might go and add some sort off kick/bassline and make it more danceable, or just some deep atmospheric sounds.. maybe i'll crack it open again sometime.

Listened to your 'musique concrete': nice work - definitely more put together as far approaching more of a 'track', reminds me of some old school street orbital or something

What you did is interesting because you used sounds in such a way that takes away from their singularity and instead created a piece in a more conventional sense that is created through the collective urban timbre of your samples... so it's cool because instead of disparate elements coming together per chance it's more or less like the essence of the samples create the sound without the samples themselves.

Pretty much totally different than what I was going for, but I think something more towards what you are doing is a much more constructive use of sampling - nice job.